<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="FR"><a href="https://urbcompsys.github.io/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Urban Complex Systems</span></a></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">October 27 - 28, 2021</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">An Online Workshop Satellite of the</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="FR"><a href="https://ccs2021.univ-lyon1.fr/#HOME" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Conference on Complex Systems 2021</span></a></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Submission deadline: July 06, 2021</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Acceptance notification: July 09, 2021</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Invited Speakers</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:106.2pt;text-indent:35.4pt"><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://dusp.mit.edu/faculty/f%C3%A1bio-duarte" target="_blank">Fábio Duarte</a>                       MIT Senseable City Lab, USA</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:106.2pt;text-indent:35.4pt"><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="http://neaveoclery.com/" target="_blank">Neave O' Cleary</a> UCL, UK</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:106.2pt;text-indent:35.4pt"><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://cs.nyu.edu/~neill/" target="_blank">Daniel B. Neill</a>                     NYU, USA</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:106.2pt;text-indent:35.4pt"><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="http://michael.szell.net/" target="_blank">Michael Szell</a>                       ITU Copenhagen, Denmark</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Cities are massive systems whose tremendous complexity requires even greater efforts to be modeled, analyzed, understood and governed. The city is the expression of a multitude of strongly intertwined systems that vary from people sociality to transport systems, from the cultural fabric to urban planning. Each of these city facets already represents in itself a complex system but their interconnection represents what is certainly one of the systems created by human beings with highest complexity in the world. The aim of this event is to bring together researchers and practitioners from around the world interested in urban systems from the perspective of complexity science.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Topics of interest include but are not limited to theoretical aspects, algorithms, methods, and fields of applications, such as:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Urban Analytics</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Social networks</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Human behavior</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Information diffusion</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Epidemic spreading</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Mobility and transportation</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">City services & infrastructures</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">City monitoring</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Urban planning</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Communication systems</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Economic and financial systems</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Healthcare</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Emergency management</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Smart environment & ecosystems</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Digital city and smart growth</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Sustainability and energy efficiency</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Smart buildings and smart grids</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Manufacturing and logistics</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stre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an><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">PC-CHAIRS</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hocine Cherifi                                    <i>LIB University of Burgundy, France, </i></span><span lang="FR"><a href="mailto:hocine.cherifi@gmail.com" target="_blank"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">hocine.cherifi@gmail.com</span></i></a></span><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Sabrina Gaito                                     <i>Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy,  </i></span><span lang="FR"><a href="mailto:sabrina.gaito@unimi.it" target="_blank"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">sabrina.gaito@unimi.it</span></i></a></span><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Roberto Interdonato                      <i>CIRAD, UMR Tetis, Montpellier, France, </i></span><span lang="FR"><a href="mailto:roberto.interdonato@cirad.fr" target="_blank"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">roberto.interdonato@cirad.fr</span></i></a></span><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hamamache Kheddouci                 <i>LIRIS Univ. of Lyon, France </i></span><span lang="FR"><a href="mailto:hamamache.kheddouci@univ-lyon1.fr" target="_blank"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">hamamache.kheddouci@univ-lyon1.fr</span></i></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Matteo Zignani                                  <i>Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy,  </i></span><span lang="FR"><a href="mailto:matteo.zignani@unimi.it" target="_blank"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">matteo.zignani@unimi.it</span></i></a></span></p></div></div>